Six weeks after a coup the military repression is escalating with human rights activists saying ‘crimes against humanity’ are likely being committed. Foreign Editor David Pratt examines a brutal crackdown by an army with form in committing atrocities For many Burmese it has brought new meaning to the term “night terrors”. Online the hashtag #nightdragging is used by many residents among Myanmar’s towns and cities to help band together and co-ordinate warnings and resistance to the night-time raids by security forces looking for daytime protesters. It has now been six weeks since the armed forces under General Min Aung Hlaing ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, detained her and officials of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party, and set up a ruling junta.
David Pratt: Military repression in Myanmar is escalating weeks on from the coup
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Back to basket case ? Myanmar economy at risk after coup
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YANGON, 17 February 2021: Tourism crops up as one of the industries that line the pockets of Myanmarâs ruling government but nothing on the scale of mines, banks, petroleum, agriculture and the gems trade.
Experts and activists say key industries that have attracted foreign investors give army chiefs access to “enormous wealth from the sprawling conglomerates they control”, according to a widely publicised AFP report this week.
The report accuses the military coup leaders of “vested
interests in large swathes of the country’s economy, providing them with a
colossal and closely guarded fortune that the US President has targeted with